Napster is back! Here's what happened to 4 other apps that faded into oblivion

You may remember Napster as the vintage music sharing service that made 15-year-old Sean Parker a Silicon Valley star when he founded it in 1999. Napster had 57 million users at its peak, but the service was ultimately brought down by a number of lawsuits from the music industry, which objected to Napster making their music available for free.

Napster remained a relic of Silicon Valley until this week when struggling music streaming service Rhapsody decided to bring Napster back to life. Rhapsody acquired Napster in 2011, but decided to take on its name now because it is better known globally, according to the Verge.

So what happened to other vintage internet companies that saw success and disappeared?

Where is it now? A little site called Facebook came along, and rendered MySpace irrelevant. Justin Timberlake (who, ironically, played Napster founder Sean Parker in "The Social Network," David Fincher's film about Facebook) and Viant purchased MySpace in 2011 for $35 million, and attempted to rebrand the site as a music company that would help up-and-coming artists get discovered.

"There were a lot of chuckles about that," Time Inc. CEO Joe Ripp told Business Insider about the MySpace acquisition in June. "Quite frankly, I hadn't even gone to the MySpace website before we bought the company, but after going there, it's a pretty good website, and music is pretty interesting."

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Peach

When it went viral: Peach, founded by Vine founder Dom Hoffman, was a simple messaging app that allowed users to send messages, photos, and GIFs. On a Friday afternoon this past January, the app went viral on social media and peaked at No. 85 on Apple's downloaded apps chart. But two days later, BGR declared that Peach's moment in the sun was over and the app was basically dead.

Where is it now? Peach isn't technically dead. You can still download it on the App Store, and the app was last updated on July 3. But Byte, the Hoffman-led company behind Peach, doesn't seem keen for attention right now.

Peach's Twitter account last tweeted on April 7. When Tech Insider sent an interview request to Peach, a spokesperson replied back: "Very sorry, but we're not giving any interviews regarding Peach at the moment."

The Yo app has added a handful of new features in recent months, including the ability to send GIFs, links, and photos within the app. It's also added poll functionality and an audio recording of the word "Yo" that users can send to their friends.